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Jajah and Intel: Fully Replacing Your Phone with Your PC?

It wasn't that long ago that Ribbit was acquired to become part of BT's larger plans to make voice applications more prominent in main stream use cases, and not surprisingly Jajah has begun to respond with a new feature that makes your PC "act more like a phone."

Taking advantage of Jajah's telephony, built on its own infrastructure and the Intel Remote Wake technology, PCs can accept phone calls from the sleep mode in order to receive a call. This partnership can also be used to make phone calls, using Jajah's global IP-based network. So how important is this particular feature? Depending on how regularly you use your computer for phone calls, this could be quite important. Especially if you're living the life of an always-connected blogger, ensuring that you never miss a tip for a new post while you're sleeping (and your computer is sleeping too).

In the larger scheme of things, this new feature speaks to the ongoing trend of the computer "competing" with the telecom and mobile industry. We've seen new product releases coming from the mobile industry in response to the iPhone, but we're also seeing some developments for computers in terms of competing with the web-based functionality that mobile devices provide, which compete (on some level) with the desktop and notebook industries that have historically provided primary access to email, web and calendar applications.

In making the PC operate more like a mobile device, as far as voice-applications go, we're seeing a furthered merging of PCs and mobile devices especially for business use. While this has been going on for some time, it's clear that the PC market is more active in finding ways to integrate itself into this larger movement, which is evident in Jajah's new offering.

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